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I am trying to create dynamically generated meta keywords & descriptions for products that I have in a channel. I want to stick my custom “text description” field for a product into the meta description tag for the product single entry pages.

But, the problem is that this field is a WYGWAM field, and so has HTML hidden in it for formatting that text. I want to strip out that HTML text to use just the “plain text” in the meta description tag. Is this possible?

Hi, Rory. Is there a reason you are using WYGWAM instead of a textarea field? You shouldn’t need the extra functionality of WYGWAM.

Hi Sue!

Yes: I am using the field as the product description, and the client likes to format that (add links, bold, etc). So I need a stripped down version to use for the meta description.

I asked around and was told to use HTML Strip, which is some sort of utility that strips the HTML out of the field. This sound perfect. Now I just need to find that and install it etc.

Update: It turns out that HTMLStrip is not available for EE2. Instead, this seems to fit the bill:

SuperGeekery Tag Stripper
http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/supergeekery-tag-stripper/

This forum post talks about this issue:
http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/162034/

A further update: SuperGeekery just updated the tag stripper add-on to include conversion of quotes into HTML entities so that quotes in the text don’t mess up your tags. Wow, very exciting. it works great.

So, just making sure, that fixes you up? Ready to close this one out?

All set here. Over and out.

Hi Rory,

Glad that you got this resolved. Please post back if required.

Cheers

Greg